Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:30 x 120 cm This was new to me

This was new to me too because it was the first time I had seen this

Her artworks depicted Jukurrpa stories

south east of the Bungle-Bungles

Nyunmiti Burton

1988 Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:30 x 120 cm This was new to meGalyas work is distinctive and highly individual. Her early paintings, dating from around 2004, drew on Portulaca oleraceaknown as munyerooa grass once abundant in the Utopia region and an important food source for generations. Its tiny black seed became central to her imagery, with Galya adopting its half circle form as a dominant motif in her paintings. Over fifty years of cattle grazing greatly reduced the abundance of this grass. In her paintings,